New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- Intel Chief Technology and AI Officer Sachin Katti has left the chipmaker and joined OpenAI to work on the ChatGPT-maker's compute-infrastructure efforts. Katti, who is an alumnus of IIT Bombay, had been working at the chipmaker for over four years and was responsible for leading Intel's overall artificial-intelligence strategy and AI product roadmap as the company faces increased competition from the likes of AMD and Nvidia.

OpenAI chairman Greg Brockman confirmed the hiring of Katti in a post on X, writing, "Incredibly excited to work with him on designing and building our compute infrastructure, which will power our AGI research and scale its applications to benefit everyone."

Meanwhile, Intel has confirmed that...